The theme of this Challenge left me scratching my head for a bit, Bill, but then I realized I do have some images that might be considred unusual by one definition or another. You decide.
Entries:
This pic is unusual because, while I've experienced plenty of wildfire issues out west, I've never seen it here in PA Dutchland. It was taken yesterday afternoon on the river that flows along the base of part of "my" mountain. You can just barely see "my" mountain in the background. Supposedly it's even worse today. We are staying inside today - VERY unusual for us.
Wild coneflower and sun reflecting on water:
A very old image from my brief Vietnam War protest days when we lived in Germany after I was discharged. It was made with an ancient Rollie 6x6 - a double exposure of a (very tasteful - hopefully not in violation of DPR rules) nude and a street poster calling for revolution. An unusual (for me) attempt at counter-culture art
Exhibits:
This area was the home of the Reading Railroad (as on your Monopoly board). If you explore around, you can find old railroad equipment abandoned here and there. A wild set of clouds brought this ghost train back to life.
Looking across the harbor in Ocracoke where Blackbeard the pirate hung out in the late 1600's/early 1700's through sailboat rigging.
Battered, understrength German infantry platoon getting orders to counterattack the Allied beachhead at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944:
Unusual flower - this thing was a couple feet across - no idea what it is.
A vast, empty beach - not a common sight these days of way too many people and not nearly enough untouched land:
One of my Hartman relatives owns a farm in the nearby Oley Valley. On that farm is the Sacred Oak - read about it here:
Sacred Oak - Wikipedia .
He has real problems with all sorts of looneys visiting the tree, worshipping it, dancing nude around it, making sacrifices to its spirits, etc, etc. How would you like to have that in your backyard all the time?
Anyway, Nancy and I were at his house for a Christmas dinner a few years ago. After everyone had a libation or two, we all decided to bundle up and head out to visit the tree. Someone had tied a ribbon around it and there were all kinds of weird little "gifts" and such at the base of the tree, but other than that, it was just a big old oak tree (one of many around here). Nancy snapped a pic with eh cell phone. We went back inside to enjoy the rest of the evening.
When Nancy looked at her pic the next morning, this is what she saw. There was nothing like that to be seen when the pic was taken. Nancy is convinced that this is an image of the spirit of the Sacred Oak.
Last, and probably least, but unusual nonetheless, is an image generated totally by AI - Photoshop Firefly, which is only available in a very limited Beta version. As a base image, I picked a little fuzzy critter image (he was in a jungle), deleted the background and told the AI to generate a background of "a rainy night lit by streetlights". I got several different versions, of which this is one. When this technology is released in an unlimited format and becomes generally available, it will change photography as we know it.
Greg
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